Re: Email Password Expire Notifications

Very nice. I got an exported this, just need to figure out how to email
this information. I guess a command line SMTP program.

Any thoughts?


"Joe Richards [MVP]" <humorexpress@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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For something like this I would recommend using findexpacc instead of
oldcmp, I set it up specifically to be scripted for cases like this...

http://www.joeware.net/win/free/tools/findexpacc.htm




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Joe Kaplan (MVP - ADSI) wrote:
My company uses a scheduled task that runs some .NET code that finds the
expiring passwords and emails the users based on our business rules for
expiration notification. This code is implemented based on the code we
show for finding password expiration on our book (see link below). The
implementation of this is detailed in ch 10, which happens to be the
freebie download chapter from the publisher. It is linked on the main
page of the site. The code samples may also be downloaded for free.

If you don't want to write a little .NET app for this and would rather
write a script, it will probably be easier for you to use a tool like Joe
Richard's oldcmp tool (from www.joeware.net) than to try to execute the
queries directly in script, as formating the queries is a little painful
in VBS. You would just take the output from Joe's tool to feed that into
your script for doing the notifications.

You might also be able to buy something if you don't want to write
anything yourself. I can understand that, although I don't have an
immediate recommendation. Part of the trick with this kind of thing is
that you generally need to send your users to a website where they can
change their password (since they don't log into the domain, they'll need
some sort of UI for this!), so you'll need at least a little
configuration flexibility with whatever tool you end up with.

HTH,

Joe K.



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